RE: Is belief really a choice?
April 4, 2013 at 3:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 3:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 4, 2013 at 2:45 pm)Mr Infidel Wrote: I believe choosing what to believe in terms of having adhering to a religious belief or discounting any and all religious belief is a choice that can be made.Like mystic, you believe that you can choose what you believe. That doesn't tie you in a knot? Did you choose to believe what you believe about our ability to choose our beliefs -ad infinutum
Quote: Not everyone raised into a certain belief system blindly believes what they are being taught, and some people do question their belief system as adults when they are older and wiser to understand the distinction between fantasy and reality. What triggers the questioning and onset of dissent from belief, however, could be due to any number of factors.What triggers that, and precisely what "that" is -is precisely the point of contention. Do people wake up and say "I choose not to believe everything people tell me about gods today" - or is it a situation of waking up and saying to oneself "I cannot believe everything people tell me about gods anymore". I'm asking this honestly, because I have no experience of any choice like that. One of those would seem to be a situation in which choice had no part - choice, for example, could not salvage. Say you reached that "I cannot believe" point, can you then choose to believe everything people say again?
(if you ever became a believer, and could describe that choice and how it -was- a choice would you be willing to return to this thread - if the forum is still up, and lay out the experience, btw?)
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